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we could have better spent it even within the education sphere in other components of education spending. you can go town the list. this would be-- and the reason i use the word adjustment is these would be tweaks and not >> charlie: tweaks. so if the president had come to you and said, mr.irtor omb, i want to create the maximum number of jobs immediately or as soon as possible. the maximum number of jobs. that's why i'm stimulating the economy. would you say to him today that's exactly what i gave you? or not. with some small tweak? was there something you guys did not do that would have created jobs at a more significant level? >> the one thing that i any many... the one thing i think many economists would say it would have been beneficial to ha a larger share of the total would be assistance to state and local governments so they don't lay off workers. that has an immediate impact and it also helps to save jobs. now the problem is it's less salient. you don't see the road being built directly. >> charlie: rite rite right. n ideal world that would have been a larger share of the total.
we could have better spent it even within the education sphere in other components of education spending. you can go town the list. this would be-- and the reason i use the word adjustment is these would be tweaks and not >> charlie: tweaks. so if the president had come to you and said, mr.irtor omb, i want to create the maximum number of jobs immediately or as soon as possible. the maximum number of jobs. that's why i'm stimulating the economy. would you say to him today that's exactly...
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in education the process is under way. we are remaking things. k through 12. >> but that process is underway. is a question of a community. i don't think we have our power centralized right. one thing i am struck by everywhere i go i find mayors and govenors who are more happy than people in washington. i just had a chance to watch my friend rom emmanuel leave the white house. and become the player of chicago and being instandly the happiest man in the wor. when you are at the state and local level you can see where you are helping. you can see what street. and people's mienltdz are narrowed and you don't live in a bubble. >> every gofewe hear criticism e people tha control the politics control the bhows. their opinion weighs weighs heavily than it has. >> i am a little dubus abouttha. i would say that this president -- he is political but they have a lot of wonky decions. and either political the president is a competitive person and he gets his juices flowing and wants to meet the be other side. i wouldn't say they are more political. >> in the
in education the process is under way. we are remaking things. k through 12. >> but that process is underway. is a question of a community. i don't think we have our power centralized right. one thing i am struck by everywhere i go i find mayors and govenors who are more happy than people in washington. i just had a chance to watch my friend rom emmanuel leave the white house. and become the player of chicago and being instandly the happiest man in the wor. when you are at the state and...
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but children will go on to get a lot of education. they will be contributing members of society >> great programs. oklahoma is the model program. it's done by republicans. so it should be a bipartisan source of agreement. but still these things do cost a lot of money. when they've tried to expand early childhood in places like california with rob reiner's proposition it's hit political head wind and was defeated. these are not easy lists. they're reasonably expensive. to me worth doing but they're heavy. >> woodruff: what about raising the minimum wage? we just double checked it. it's $7.25 i believe right now. to raise it to $9 an hour? >> well, you know, i think it's a pretty straightforward argument. if you work 40 hours a week, 52 hours or 52 weeks a year, you should rise above poverty. i mean... >> woodruff: that was his argument >> that's the argument. i think it's a straightforward one. $9 an hour. 10 states already linked their minimum wage to inflation. >> the counterargument of course is that actually relatively few people a
but children will go on to get a lot of education. they will be contributing members of society >> great programs. oklahoma is the model program. it's done by republicans. so it should be a bipartisan source of agreement. but still these things do cost a lot of money. when they've tried to expand early childhood in places like california with rob reiner's proposition it's hit political head wind and was defeated. these are not easy lists. they're reasonably expensive. to me worth doing...
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we've got a good education reform. so the culture of america is still basically the culture of america and i can't imagine any of us would trade our problems for anybody else's problems. >> rose: tom friedman? >> i would pick up on david -- i'm less sanguine because i worry sometimes that we are what what is called the cleest dirty shirt. i agree with the strengths that david has sited but i worry about the public private partnership that is needed to sustain those strengths and i fear we are in the worst kind of decline. a slow decline. just sroe enough for us to imagine we're not in a decline and not drop everything and do what is still very much in our control and power right now for reasons david said to turn this ship in another direction. >> but if you look at this idea of the united states having all the power not in decline but needing to tap into the resources it has and also needing to tap into resources around the world in terms of problem solving, is that a big opportunity that the right kind of president c
we've got a good education reform. so the culture of america is still basically the culture of america and i can't imagine any of us would trade our problems for anybody else's problems. >> rose: tom friedman? >> i would pick up on david -- i'm less sanguine because i worry sometimes that we are what what is called the cleest dirty shirt. i agree with the strengths that david has sited but i worry about the public private partnership that is needed to sustain those strengths and i...
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in the days of pat brown you had an education it will system that went from berkeley to the local community college and smaller schools in between and the state college system in between. there was something for everyone and the coastal areas kept open for public use and a highway system it's within the liberals began to dedicate programs and said, y know, well means testing in stez of having programs for everyone. the great thing about infrastructure is is it for everyone and they'll support if if it means pat brown and building things for everyone not certain programs which drives the middle class people through the roof and it's a point liberals ought to listen to. >> chris has gone all cementy on me. >> i love cement because it cracks all the time and you have to replace it which is very much a democratic notion. >> charlie: that's what happens when they come to this program, they go to a place they haven't been before. but chris, in your own home state of pennsylvania the president had a difficult time sort of speaking to the very workers that you are talking about in the primary. does
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government has to make sure is the things that only government cans do, they play a central role in educating children -- >> charlie: national security. health care. >> a financial system that we create the basic fabric that allows economies to function well but again, these things require people working together and frankly, stepping back from politics sometimes and finding ways to bring creative solutions to these kind of problems and i think the biggest challenge we face is make sure that we demonstrate that our political system is up to the challenge because these are bigger challenges than we've faced as a country in a long time but if you look back to the last 18 months there is grounds for optimism again r because again in the face of enormous pressure, enormous crisis, enormous challenge, this president found a way to do some hard, tough things that are absolutely going to make us stronger going forward. we've got to make sure we're finding the will to bring that kind of force and leadership to the other challenges we face. >> charlie: thank you very much on a very busy day. >> nice t
government has to make sure is the things that only government cans do, they play a central role in educating children -- >> charlie: national security. health care. >> a financial system that we create the basic fabric that allows economies to function well but again, these things require people working together and frankly, stepping back from politics sometimes and finding ways to bring creative solutions to these kind of problems and i think the biggest challenge we face is make...
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we have the ability to educate and improve them, depending on how we surround ourselves. nonconsciously but indirectly. i spent some of yesterday with a fabulous kids who were active in the boys & girls club. and they were kids from broken homes, parents on crack, really terrible circumstances. but one of the things that they really had the instinct to understand, even at age 14, was that i can't turn my life around by myself. but if i get myself out of this environment, i will be surrounded by other influences. and they, even at 14, one of the kids left one city where his mom was and went to anher city, at age 14. because he had the instinctive and correct attitude that got to surround my self-with different influences that is the power of institutions, to permeate who we where and change the way we think. and then the final think i'd mention is that we have a sense that passion is stupid and reason is smart. and that when we do-- act correctly, our reason is overwhelming our passion. and when we are stupid we are listening to our owe mention-- emotions, that is false to
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education and educated citizenry is absolutely essential to moving from campaigning to governing because governing is more example than campaigning except this campaign which was the most painful campaign which may push the public to yearn for governing. >> rose: i got some currency a little while back seemed less so now because tough times have come to other parts of the worl is america in decline. david where do you come on the idea of america on decline? >> i call my family mother moses and trump's everybody else's founding father. [laughter] >> rose: he wants to talk about abraham. >> and you never saw the promised land. >> unfair. >> came close. i never really thought this america in decline business. in part you look at people under 30. they are tremendously holding a responsible generation. they have -- but until then, they're very hard working responsible. they're going to save our bacon. second, america is still basically america. we still have a very creative dynamic culture. we have a lot of advantage going forward. there's a global middle class rising, they're going to be buy
education and educated citizenry is absolutely essential to moving from campaigning to governing because governing is more example than campaigning except this campaign which was the most painful campaign which may push the public to yearn for governing. >> rose: i got some currency a little while back seemed less so now because tough times have come to other parts of the worl is america in decline. david where do you come on the idea of america on decline? >> i call my family...
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one o them he's already doing, education. doing quite a good job there. energy, i think he's doing a mediocre job. not without success. take four or five big reform agenda, that's from franklin roosevelt and teddy roosevelt did, lay it out there. that's a 60% or 70% agenda and if you present beam that agenda say starting with the tax code, nobody's going to leek all of it but they'll like that rong agenda because you are laying the foundations. and the tax reform was the test because many people-- include the president himself-- said "we've got t reform the tax code" and everybody knows what the shape of reform looks like. absolutely everybody. lower the rates and get rid of loopholes. and he didn't come outith a plan. he embraced it front from a distance but never said "we're doing this." >> rose: just laying out what he wants to do, is prepared to do about cutting entitlements, i mean, can't he make that case that in these economic times it's essential to do thi >> well, here's the case where we have a disagreement between the two parties. we currently
one o them he's already doing, education. doing quite a good job there. energy, i think he's doing a mediocre job. not without success. take four or five big reform agenda, that's from franklin roosevelt and teddy roosevelt did, lay it out there. that's a 60% or 70% agenda and if you present beam that agenda say starting with the tax code, nobody's going to leek all of it but they'll like that rong agenda because you are laying the foundations. and the tax reform was the test because many...
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inone case, a senator in another case, a president in the a third case, which is the best education for them? >> oh, gosh. i mean, i would suppose... >> rose: liberal arts? >> in all three cases, learning about the world at large, learning history, learning nguage, learning history, learning about politics, learng a lot about science because i think you can't live in the modern world without knowing a lot about scien. if y're planning t become president i would say there's something wrong with you because that's not what you're planning when you're starting to go to school. >> rose: i know people who said there was talk about barack obama becoming president when he was in law school. >> when he was in kibd guard. >> rose: (laughs) >> no, no... >> rose: so there's something wrong with him, then? >> no, i think it's like the kid who wants to be fireman. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thank you, charlie. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access gro at wgbh acce.wgbh.org
inone case, a senator in another case, a president in the a third case, which is the best education for them? >> oh, gosh. i mean, i would suppose... >> rose: liberal arts? >> in all three cases, learning about the world at large, learning history, learning nguage, learning history, learning about politics, learng a lot about science because i think you can't live in the modern world without knowing a lot about scien. if y're planning t become president i would say there's...
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early childhood education. i don't know if that counts as four. >> rose: what's the big debate there? >> there's no debate. nobody wants to do anything about it. >> rose: because? >> because the big lobbying guns aren't k-12. the early childhood people don't have lobbying guns and the prestige is in k-12 and higher ed. >> and that affects k-12 early childhood development. >> and if you go to senators or congressmen and tell them about early childhood education they nod patron patronizingly and they think "that's a warm puppy." >> rose: how about foreign policy? >> i think we have a reasonably daisuke... you know, we have problems in iran. the one final issue i would say is metro air gras area clustering which sounds weird. but why is america reallrich? it's not because whave natural resources it's because we're really good at forming networks. formg a silicon valley where you get combinations of people feeding off each other. so we should have policies to create metro areas. >> rose: why do you need that? >> so
early childhood education. i don't know if that counts as four. >> rose: what's the big debate there? >> there's no debate. nobody wants to do anything about it. >> rose: because? >> because the big lobbying guns aren't k-12. the early childhood people don't have lobbying guns and the prestige is in k-12 and higher ed. >> and that affects k-12 early childhood development. >> and if you go to senators or congressmen and tell them about early childhood...
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to your education. to your philosophy. >> rose: brooks and sting when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. maybe you want school kids to have more exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a difference. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin tonight with a wrap-up of an important week in politics. president obama announced a deal on tuesday that will extend all the bush tax cuts for two more years. in exchange the republican leadership agreed to continue unemployment benefits for 13 more months. some within the democratic party are criticizing the president for caving to republican demands. the republicans have cri
to your education. to your philosophy. >> rose: brooks and sting when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. maybe you want school kids to have more exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take...
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and this is about education, and this is going to play out over the pacific ocean with countries that industry lived in before, and all i can tell you tonight, without any hint of hyperbole, folks, if we don't get our act together as home we will see the end of the american century by 25th and we are not going to let that happen, are we? >> now some final thoughts from shields and brooks, that syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times columnist david brooks. david, you know, john huntsman lost right now it looks like by 20 points to mitt romney tonight yet he said his third place finish was, i mean, to ron paul, anyway he said his third place finish was a ticket to ride to where? >> utah. you know, i just don't see it. just look at the speech he gave. i mean, i followed his campaign in new hampshire a couple of times, he started out as the king of banality and ended as the king of banality, there wasn't an uninteresting cliche speech in the thought. i thought he could have carved out a unique niche. he never had an interesting story to tell. he may go on to south carolina,
and this is about education, and this is going to play out over the pacific ocean with countries that industry lived in before, and all i can tell you tonight, without any hint of hyperbole, folks, if we don't get our act together as home we will see the end of the american century by 25th and we are not going to let that happen, are we? >> now some final thoughts from shields and brooks, that syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times columnist david brooks. david, you know,...
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and yes, we have to improve education. yes, we have to improve the family structure. yes, we have to research psychiatric problems and you have a guy come on dr. lieberman, i'm sure will talk about all that. but nevertheless, that's not at the level where you fight guns short term. we can't wait for improvements in our school system. we've been waiting 50 year forcthat. kuwait another 50ears? you know how many people are going to get killed during obama's next four years in office, 48,000 americans will be killed, to put-- with guns. to put that in perspective, that's more americans than died in vietnam since march tin luther king and jfk-- rfk were assassinated back in 68y there has been over 400,000 americans shot with guns, killed. that's more than the number of americans that died in world war ii. and we don't pay any attention to this. this is justcrazy. ros some people arg and jereyoldberg and others have said, even members of congress, that might allowing more law-abiding private citizens carrying concealed weapons with other stringent gun regulation actually r
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he supported john mccain last time and is especially concerned with education. beth hersom, 30, is a registered democrat who considers herself a swing voter. she voted for the president previously but she opposes abortion, and didn't like the way his health care reform law dealt with contraception. annabel foery, 64, voted republican in the last two election, but she said he isn't sure she trusts governor romney and wants to see more cooperation on both sides to get things done. adam salazar, a 26-year-old grad student is a republican who voted for president obama last time. he believes both parties have failed on immigration policy. and park and martha paschal is k apt to vote for president obama again in part because of what she sees as his failure to stand up to wall street. you all remained undecided this time last week. did you hear anything from president obama last night that help you make up your mind? >> i didn't feel as though there was much substance that was given in his speech. i thought there was a lot of emotion and, you know, rallying the base. b
he supported john mccain last time and is especially concerned with education. beth hersom, 30, is a registered democrat who considers herself a swing voter. she voted for the president previously but she opposes abortion, and didn't like the way his health care reform law dealt with contraception. annabel foery, 64, voted republican in the last two election, but she said he isn't sure she trusts governor romney and wants to see more cooperation on both sides to get things done. adam salazar, a...
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education-- the more education you have the more likely it is to have. >> sreenivasan: and there's increasing concern over the way broadband is being used among different groups, whether spending more time on social networks, streaming television programs and movies and playing games, is at the expense of educational advancement, managing finances and pursuing job opportunities. this week the ad council launched the website www.everyoneon.org. it's a nationwide campaign from to increase digital literacy. for more on the digital divide, we turn to vicky rideout. she is the author of several studies about children and media. she currently runs v.j.r. consulting and is an editor at the journal of children and media. and ambassador karen kornbluh, who stepped down recently as the u.s. representative to the organization for economic cooperation and development. she also served as assistant chief at the f.c.c. where she worked on broadband access. so, karen kornbluh, let me start with you. where do you see the divide? how do you see it playing out. >> this is such a technical issue it's a good idea
education-- the more education you have the more likely it is to have. >> sreenivasan: and there's increasing concern over the way broadband is being used among different groups, whether spending more time on social networks, streaming television programs and movies and playing games, is at the expense of educational advancement, managing finances and pursuing job opportunities. this week the ad council launched the website www.everyoneon.org. it's a nationwide campaign from to increase...
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but they are very diverse in their educational and economic composition. that's changed, so you take those same neighborhoods in 2010, median income is up around 163,000 dollars. the percentage of college graduates is up to about 67% for 26% and beyond that the most elite neighborhoods are also disproportionately filled with people from harvard, princeton, yale, standford, duke, the elite universities so there's that add on and for charlie, they are forming larger and larger clusters so you have the superzips all connected to each other and people can live their lives would coming in contact with anybody outside them. >> rose: you also seem to suggest, i want to phrase this carefully, that they are a custodian of the values that the middle class used to have and take pride in. >> here's the dissonance in the book, if you were. because i have a lot of problems with the isolation of the new upper-class. but if you take the upper middle class as a whole, they're staying married. still very high percentages. despite the rising divorce rate in the country as a
but they are very diverse in their educational and economic composition. that's changed, so you take those same neighborhoods in 2010, median income is up around 163,000 dollars. the percentage of college graduates is up to about 67% for 26% and beyond that the most elite neighborhoods are also disproportionately filled with people from harvard, princeton, yale, standford, duke, the elite universities so there's that add on and for charlie, they are forming larger and larger clusters so you...
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but children will go on to get a lot of education. they will be contributing members of society >> great programs. oklahoma is the model program. it's done by republicans. so it should be a bipartisan source of agreement. but still these things do cost a lot of money. when they've tried to expand early childhood in places like california with rob reiner's proposition it's hit political head wind and was defeated. these are not easy lists. they're reasonably expensive. to me worth doing but they're heavy. >> woodruff: what about raising the minimum wage? we just double checked it. it's $7.25 i believe right now. to raise it to $9 an hour? >> well, you know, i think it's a pretty straightforward argument. if you work 40 hours a week, 52 hours or 52 weeks a year, you should rise above poverty. i mean... >> woodruff: that was his argument >> that's the argument. i think it's a straightforward one. $9 an hour. 10 states already linked their minimum wage to inflation. >> the counterargument of course is that actually relatively few people a
but children will go on to get a lot of education. they will be contributing members of society >> great programs. oklahoma is the model program. it's done by republicans. so it should be a bipartisan source of agreement. but still these things do cost a lot of money. when they've tried to expand early childhood in places like california with rob reiner's proposition it's hit political head wind and was defeated. these are not easy lists. they're reasonably expensive. to me worth doing...
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i want to bring my education to the kids. that is where my heart, where my passion is i want to bring the education, five star restaurants are great. and i love the chef learning i have right now. but impacting the living of our children an bringing that to our school district, it's the most important thing to me right now in my life . >> graduation day. each new chef left with a framed diploma and a whole new framework for school food. and now with the real prospect of millions of new dollars coming from washington to improve nutrition, they might just have a chance to make lentils and cauliflower staples on the lunchroom menu. >> woodruff: again the major developments of the day, the economy lost 130,000 jobs last month. and the unemployment rate stayed stuck at 9.5%. and the catastrophic flooding in northwest pakistan swept south. the government estimated more than 12 million people have been affected. the newshour's always on-line, of course. hari sreenivasan in our news room previews what is there, har sni. >> on the job
i want to bring my education to the kids. that is where my heart, where my passion is i want to bring the education, five star restaurants are great. and i love the chef learning i have right now. but impacting the living of our children an bringing that to our school district, it's the most important thing to me right now in my life . >> graduation day. each new chef left with a framed diploma and a whole new framework for school food. and now with the real prospect of millions of new...
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some of the sharpest differences are between the less well educated and the college educated . college educated have shown gains and particularly where you have college educated husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, those families have gained the income opportunities for less well educated workers have not kept pace. >> ifill: another part of this-- and a lot of people have talked about this education gap. people have talked less about or at least there have been assumptions made about immigration as an effect or trade policy. jobs are being outsourced to other countries. is that part of this as well? >> well, immigration as far as economists have been able to determine so far, immigration has not been a major factor. it has, except with regard to the very poor. the bottom 10%. high school people who did not graduate from high school have suffered. as a result of immigration. but the middle class , whose income stagnation is really the defining factor of what i call the great divergence, i borrowed that from paul krugman of princeton and the "new york times", that was unaffe
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a phrase from two economists because it was the education century. i don't think we have grown because we cut taxes. look at the bush and clinton trackses, clinton raised taxes, growth soared, bush cut them, growth was mediocre. tax rates are not the magic buet. i think if we can look back and find out why we have grown in the past it wil help us maintain our position as the world's strongest economy. >> rose: and the answer is that we have to do both, reduction in spending as well as find some revenue enhancement. >> yes. and one of the reasons we have to do reduction in spending is because we have a budget right now that is not a budget for a rising nation, it is a budget for a declining nation. if you spe too much of your resources on making old age comfortable, which is something that a rich country should do but if you spend too much of it, are you not spending on tomorrow. you're not spending on the next great medical treatments, on green energy, on education. >> rose: let me turn, the three of us were in cairo at the same time when the transit
a phrase from two economists because it was the education century. i don't think we have grown because we cut taxes. look at the bush and clinton trackses, clinton raised taxes, growth soared, bush cut them, growth was mediocre. tax rates are not the magic buet. i think if we can look back and find out why we have grown in the past it wil help us maintain our position as the world's strongest economy. >> rose: and the answer is that we have to do both, reduction in spending as well as...
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. >> ( translated ): my father was a pioneer of education in benghzai. and the reward he got was for one son to be hanged and the other crippled. >> reporter: the man many credit with starting the uprising in benghzai by calling a protest for legal rights stands on the courthouse roof and can't quite believe his eyes. did you think it would be like this? >> no, sure no. but things go well as we want. >> reporter: the lawyers, engineers, doctors and other intellectuals who led the revolt are now trying to organize a new council to pay salaries and establish law and order. they are still reeling from the speed of events. >> ( translated ): at the first, it was protest. and after that when we heard some people killed we tried to stay and not go and then all of a sudden it's a revolution. >> reporter: elsewhere in the courthouse, 20 men accused of being african mercenaries hired by the colonel to kill protesters. some deny it and say they are libyans. others say they are from ghana and they're innocent. the revolutionaries haven't lost their sense of humor.
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get an education, culture, anything. security is the issue of our government. >> warner: he's also quick to share credit with najaf's shiite clergy and tribal leaders. >> the clergy has the power on the people. they always taught their people to respect their government, to respect. >> warner: back in the sectarian stew of baghdad, the dentist doesn't share the same faith in iraq's central government or iraqi society. to bring about a better life. >> who will change it? nobody will change it. >> warner: you don't think the government ever will be strong enough and capable enough? >> we have 30 years. from the day i born, we have wars, killings. 30 years the same. we need up to 100 years we need to change the condition. >> warner: well, i hope you're wrong. >> i don't think so. i don't think so. ask my mom and my grandmother. it was the same. i will ask my children and their children. it will be the same. believe me. iraq is cursed. believe it. it is cursed.
get an education, culture, anything. security is the issue of our government. >> warner: he's also quick to share credit with najaf's shiite clergy and tribal leaders. >> the clergy has the power on the people. they always taught their people to respect their government, to respect. >> warner: back in the sectarian stew of baghdad, the dentist doesn't share the same faith in iraq's central government or iraqi society. to bring about a better life. >> who will change it?...
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i mean ted cruz say smart, well educated, thoughtful, intelligent man. but he brings to politics a belief and a conviction that compromise is not a alternative course. it's not a legitimate activity. and i think, judy, one want look at this race in texas without looking at steve's retirement in ohio. steve latourette, republican congressman, nine terms, a player on the health, respected on both sides of the aisle, a republican, close to speaker boehner. but because he strayed occasionally from the orthodoxy of his party, because he didn't raise enough money for the party coffers, he was going to be denied a leadership position and finally said, and he said in his farewell remarks, compromise what become a dirty word among my party. >> woodruff: how do you see all that? we don't know whether ted cruz is going to win. it is expected he will win in november. >> right. >> so i would say mark used the word conviction and that's the right word here this is a guy at age 13 was going to seminars and learning about hyack and-- went to prince toon, studied with ro
i mean ted cruz say smart, well educated, thoughtful, intelligent man. but he brings to politics a belief and a conviction that compromise is not a alternative course. it's not a legitimate activity. and i think, judy, one want look at this race in texas without looking at steve's retirement in ohio. steve latourette, republican congressman, nine terms, a player on the health, respected on both sides of the aisle, a republican, close to speaker boehner. but because he strayed occasionally from...
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and that will be the education for them. >> how much damage has this don? >> i will add.the republicans mn reactionary missio mistake, jud. >> in the republican housecaucue understood the democrats had overwhelming supported and the house supported and the president supported it and they were out voted. this was in the republican house and the caucus and party nationally there is an anti-obama reaction. and if the president can endorse the commandments and say can we cut it to 7. there was that reaction. that was part driven in part by eyidealology as well. >> it was personal. >> the same party will fighttooe 1.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts that president bush wrote into lieu that will benefit the most wealthy among us. that never wondered how the iraq war should be funded or financed alt oall of a sudden become a gn eye shade of accoun accountantsd bookkeepers. i agree with david it's a questionable public policy to take the stream that is dedicated to social security and to use it and we have done it. this is not the first time it's been done. but it sho
and that will be the education for them. >> how much damage has this don? >> i will add.the republicans mn reactionary missio mistake, jud. >> in the republican housecaucue understood the democrats had overwhelming supported and the house supported and the president supported it and they were out voted. this was in the republican house and the caucus and party nationally there is an anti-obama reaction. and if the president can endorse the commandments and say can we cut it to...
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but we do have the power to educate our emotions. we do that through literature and art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional sperns. if you choose to go to a college you're educating your emotions by who you surround yourself with. if you go to the marine corps, a different sort of education. simply because i'm saying it's unconscious and emotional that doesn't mean it's beyond our control. we have the choose to choose how to educate our emotions. >> brown: a dumb question. we don't know this because it's happening as an unconscious level. >> right. the brain or the human brain writes the autobiography at the conscious level. >> brown: we are thinking beings. >> all these things are happening at the low level of awareness. when we meet somebody, we are synchronizing our vocabularies right now, we're synchronizing our breathing. so when we make our marriage decisions, often it's on the basis of things we're not even aware of, that people tend to marry people with similar noses, eyes similarly apart with complementary
but we do have the power to educate our emotions. we do that through literature and art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional sperns. if you choose to go to a college you're educating your emotions by who you surround yourself with. if you go to the marine corps, a different sort of education. simply because i'm saying it's unconscious and emotional that doesn't mean it's beyond our control. we have the choose to choose how to educate our emotions. >> brown: a dumb...
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about 25 million dollars could be cut to education. about 22 million dollars could be cut to education for children with disabilities. and those could be hundreds of teachers jobs. and alsoome head strt ositns,bout 2500, according to the white house. though our costs here are lower for head start so head start in ohio is saying about 3,000 kids. so those are the kind of impacts that we're looking at. it's a lot less than in some other states. >> brown: and megan verlee, what about in colorado. you have a lot going on there with federal spending, right. >> i think by definition we are some other states in comparison so ohio. colorado has a greater exposure to these federal cuts on average than most states inhe country, according to number from theew center on the states because we have a bunch of military bases, a lot of federal spending with a lot of research labs and a big federal center out here. and then federal grants to our budget are a larger than average percentage. so in colorado we're looking at about 85 to 90 million dollars
about 25 million dollars could be cut to education. about 22 million dollars could be cut to education for children with disabilities. and those could be hundreds of teachers jobs. and alsoome head strt ositns,bout 2500, according to the white house. though our costs here are lower for head start so head start in ohio is saying about 3,000 kids. so those are the kind of impacts that we're looking at. it's a lot less than in some other states. >> brown: and megan verlee, what about in...
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, a particular challenge given that burma's education system is severely neglected. the central yangon university campus has been shuttered for years for fear of student protest. study of political science was suspended after 1988. rising to meet this challenge is myanmar egress, a five-year-old skills training program. myanmar egress has been able to offer political science classes to students under the more innocuous title of social entrepreneurship. still, the content is surprisingly bold. >> ( translated ): something democracy can bring to burmese society is open public debate. what is open public debate? >> ( translated ): it means an open exchange of discussions and argumens. >> i want to work for my country as a policy maker. >> reporter: 27-year-old yin mon is aiming for a future as an economic researcher. she and the other students here were eager to practice their english with me and share their optimism about changes in burma. >> it is not totally changed but this is a transition period. so it is starting to move our country. this is the first step, i thin
, a particular challenge given that burma's education system is severely neglected. the central yangon university campus has been shuttered for years for fear of student protest. study of political science was suspended after 1988. rising to meet this challenge is myanmar egress, a five-year-old skills training program. myanmar egress has been able to offer political science classes to students under the more innocuous title of social entrepreneurship. still, the content is surprisingly bold....
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, wealthier and better educated people are more likely to vote. but states critical to both campaigns such as colorado, nevada, florida and here in virginia have seen large growth in hispanic population and voter registration in recent years, and they are up for grabs. in a tight election, these voters could end up providing the winner with the margin of victory. how do you talk to a population of 50 million people? for one thing, in spanish and through a variety of channels. bettina inclan is the republican national committee's director of hispanic outreach. >> there's a lot of diversity within the hispanic community. 20-plus different countries, different, differences in generation-- first generation versus third generation-- so having a message that connects with all of them, but also recognizes a uniqueness and when to be culturally aware is incredibly important. i think that's why a lot of our outreach efforts are so localized. >> suarez: in battleground colorado, that was a juntos con romney-- "together with romney"- - event, headlined by ro
, wealthier and better educated people are more likely to vote. but states critical to both campaigns such as colorado, nevada, florida and here in virginia have seen large growth in hispanic population and voter registration in recent years, and they are up for grabs. in a tight election, these voters could end up providing the winner with the margin of victory. how do you talk to a population of 50 million people? for one thing, in spanish and through a variety of channels. bettina inclan is...
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if you look at all of the inequitin education and housing and jobs, in a place like chicago. well, it's all -- it all derives from housing patterns. the way, they were purposely built that way to separate white people who didn't want black people in their neighborhood. and every time you try to address that, you were met with community-wide violence that was approved by and large by the community. fire bombings and horrible thing. so there was no, there were no good solutions to this. one mistake liberals made, even though i certainly sympathize with the call is they didn't have a plan f what to do when things didn't work out. when we had to integrate the country with all the speed, what was the plan if the people weren't going to go along with that? >> liberals couldn't have done what you would have liked them to have done, and reversed discrimination in this country? >> but the fact is, it's that we were asking for almost a revolution in everyday lives, in a lot of parts of this country, and the liberals who tried to bring it out from above -- >> but when the, the man for c
if you look at all of the inequitin education and housing and jobs, in a place like chicago. well, it's all -- it all derives from housing patterns. the way, they were purposely built that way to separate white people who didn't want black people in their neighborhood. and every time you try to address that, you were met with community-wide violence that was approved by and large by the community. fire bombings and horrible thing. so there was no, there were no good solutions to this. one...
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i have no formal education, a high school education, but, you know, to look at these oyster beds that i have, i'm proud of the product that i sell. but i have leases that are worthless now. >> reporter: cvitanovich showed us deposits of oil in the marsh grass that have the consistency of candle wax. >> see how its greasy? >> reporter: it's all stuck together. >> reporter: yes, sir. look at my hand now. it's like a petroleum. >> reporter: it's clearly like... it's not like the mud that comes apart. >> the mud had more a sand, a grit, whereas this here is like a... like a baby oil. >> reporter: he says it's killing the grass and dissolving the marsh. and that's a disaster in the making, because the marsh grasses are the breeding grounds for the oyster, shrimp, fish, and bird populations that are the foundation of the economy. cvitanovich doesn't think the ongoing remediation efforts are working. he pointed out large tracts of grass that have died. >> right now today, not choppy. but when bad weather comes, it eats this bank up more and more. it just erodes back. >> reporter: cvitanvich
i have no formal education, a high school education, but, you know, to look at these oyster beds that i have, i'm proud of the product that i sell. but i have leases that are worthless now. >> reporter: cvitanovich showed us deposits of oil in the marsh grass that have the consistency of candle wax. >> see how its greasy? >> reporter: it's all stuck together. >> reporter: yes, sir. look at my hand now. it's like a petroleum. >> reporter: it's clearly like... it's...
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board of education." think of cases that have interpreted the constitution of the united states around equal rights and so when we talk about the importance of the presidency it's certainly about the economic issues of that nature. but this could have impacts for hundreds of years. >> i do have to ask this question. there's going to be 28 women paraded on the stage tonight to talk about the power of the republican party. >> we only have 17% of women in congress. we only have 17 women senators, we only have six governors who are women we still have a very long way to go and when the house of representatives is having a hearing about access to birth control and the first panel is devoid of a woman, women women's voices aren't being heard. >> ifill: thank you both, one of those women is on the floor right now, that's congresswoman nidia valasquez of new york. >> i am proud to speak to you as a hispanic american. as a proud latina and a puerto rican. (cheers and applause) from being the first in my family to
board of education." think of cases that have interpreted the constitution of the united states around equal rights and so when we talk about the importance of the presidency it's certainly about the economic issues of that nature. but this could have impacts for hundreds of years. >> i do have to ask this question. there's going to be 28 women paraded on the stage tonight to talk about the power of the republican party. >> we only have 17% of women in congress. we only have 17...
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get an education. don't fall in love which your protagonist does not listen to that onement but then it becomes this sort of darker, avoid idealists which bngs in the notion of religious, briend a bureaucrat, the core roption in society, and finally be prepared to use violence. so there is a darker side here. >> there is i think, you know, i think the market is a brutal thing. it's, you know, the law of the jungle with am so rules. and in a place like pakistan or much of the world, really, where those rules are pretty flimsy and loosely enforced, it's often the violence and corrupt experience trying to make it up. >> i read one of your previous novels, the reluctant fundamentalist and now this. your book and other books hel me understand what's going on in countries that we often more on our program are looking at through terrorism and all kinds of bad things. but i wonder for you as a writer, do you feel a sense of mission if that's the word, to try to tell rest of the world what's going on in your so
get an education. don't fall in love which your protagonist does not listen to that onement but then it becomes this sort of darker, avoid idealists which bngs in the notion of religious, briend a bureaucrat, the core roption in society, and finally be prepared to use violence. so there is a darker side here. >> there is i think, you know, i think the market is a brutal thing. it's, you know, the law of the jungle with am so rules. and in a place like pakistan or much of the world,...
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putting people back to work, educating our kids, growing our middle class. it's no wonder then that you're asking hard questions. so let me answer some of the most important questions that i've heard from members of congress and that i've read in letters you've sent to me. first, many of you have asked, "won't this put us on a slippery slope to another war?" one man wrote to me that we are still recovering from our involvement in iraq. a veteran put it more bluntly-- "this nation is sick and tired of war." my answer is simple-- i will not put american boots on the ground in syria. i will not pursue an open-ended action like iraq or afghanistan. i will not pursue a prolonged air campaign like libya or kosovo. this would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective-- deterg the use of chemical weapons and degrading assad's capabilities. others have asked whether it's worth acting if we don't take out assad. some members of congress have said there's no point in simply doing a pin-prick strike in syria. let me make something clear-- the united states milit
putting people back to work, educating our kids, growing our middle class. it's no wonder then that you're asking hard questions. so let me answer some of the most important questions that i've heard from members of congress and that i've read in letters you've sent to me. first, many of you have asked, "won't this put us on a slippery slope to another war?" one man wrote to me that we are still recovering from our involvement in iraq. a veteran put it more bluntly-- "this nation...
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and education is not housing, by the way. you know. --. >> brown: richard veder, you can come back in this. the-- go ahead. >> an interesting point was raised there. there is another dimension that hasn't been mentioned, and that is 40%, 45% of the students who entered traditional four-year university or college education don't graduate. and i don't mean in four years. i mean in six years. so there's an enormous amount of risk being taken by a lot of students, and a lot of those risks relate to the fact that colleges and universities are often admitting students who they full well know have a limited probability of success but they take them in anyway. this is not the weslayan's of the world. that's a high-quality yrvth elite, private school. but many schools have very high cropp out rates and that's another dimension of this that hasn't been picked up in all this talk about truth and beauty and having people learn about egyptian civilization-- i'm all for people learning about egyptian civil zane. four out of five students w
and education is not housing, by the way. you know. --. >> brown: richard veder, you can come back in this. the-- go ahead. >> an interesting point was raised there. there is another dimension that hasn't been mentioned, and that is 40%, 45% of the students who entered traditional four-year university or college education don't graduate. and i don't mean in four years. i mean in six years. so there's an enormous amount of risk being taken by a lot of students, and a lot of those...
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there's a woman in our piece saying it's about health, it's about education. what is she talking about? >> brazil has made enormous progress over the last ten or 15 years. the economy is in far more stable and a much better place than it was before. but what's happened now over the last two or three years is that we've seen a sharp slowdown in growth and an uptick in inflation. and i think those two things combined have fed through into frustration, a broader frustration that people have learned and have appreciated and have come to understand the benefits of having an economic stability. they see where the country should be going and they have had a taste for a bit of equality, a bit more of an improvement in quality of life and now they're concerned that they're going away. that that is slipping out of their hands. >> warner: and why has the hosting of the world cup, what, a year from now, and the olympics become such a sort of rallying cry of this protest? >> well, i think we have to remember that these protests have by coincidence come at the same time as
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a number of economists have said this economy still rewards education. even if this economy. if you have a college degree your unemployment rate is very low. women have gotten that message. men have to the gotten that message. men have not upped their skill level. and so why is that? it could have to do with family structure t could have to do with a thousand other things but those are the sort of fundamental things really hurting the labor market. >> woodruff: so can anything be done? i mean do i hear both of you saying -- >> well, i think the is awful lot of work that needs to be done in our society. there's all kinds of tasks that need to be performed. the question is are we going to be stuck in this corporate mood el that says that, i mean, wal-mart, largest employer in the country, its profits are up, it's opened new stores with fewer employees. i mean if that's the model we've going to find, and turn it over and say that is fine, then we're going to end up with double-digit unemployment and wasted lives. i mean i just think there are all kinds of things that can be done
a number of economists have said this economy still rewards education. even if this economy. if you have a college degree your unemployment rate is very low. women have gotten that message. men have to the gotten that message. men have not upped their skill level. and so why is that? it could have to do with family structure t could have to do with a thousand other things but those are the sort of fundamental things really hurting the labor market. >> woodruff: so can anything be done? i...
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i would like to see improvements in education. policy has been stalled for an extended period and a changing world. and we need to catch up. we have to prepare not just for having next year be good but the next ten years, the next 20 years. >> muhamed el-erian, you spoke about the monies that's sitting on the sidelines and i hear ken rogoff referring to that too. with is it going to take that shake that loose to make business owners feel that it's a good thing to invest. >> it's going to take what ken said and critically, it's about a number of items that have to be addressed simultaneously. you know we like this notion. maybe there's a shortcut, maybe there is a killer app, maybe there is this one thing. well, there isn't. it's taken us years to get in this mess. it's goingo takes years to get out. and we only get out through simultaneous progress on a number of areas. so ken spoke to fiscal reform. he spoke to infrastructure. he spoke to education. i would add labor retraining and retooling. and i would also add fixing the credi
i would like to see improvements in education. policy has been stalled for an extended period and a changing world. and we need to catch up. we have to prepare not just for having next year be good but the next ten years, the next 20 years. >> muhamed el-erian, you spoke about the monies that's sitting on the sidelines and i hear ken rogoff referring to that too. with is it going to take that shake that loose to make business owners feel that it's a good thing to invest. >> it's...
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plenty of her brown classmates are mal-employed as well. >> jobs that you don't need a college education for, by any stretch of the imagination. >> reporter: chandra thought the highway job would be stopgap. it's lasted a year, with food stamps needed at times to supplement her part-time income. david cook and his wife-- also a college grad and a part-time waitress-- are still on food stamps; were on welfare for a while, too. >> it's been really emotionally tough for both of us and, psychologically, it's hard to, you know, be the father and the husband, the man of the family, but not providing for him. >> reporter: and now, the cooks are awaiting the arrival of a second baby. >> i found this job washing trash cans the day before she found out she was pregnant. so at least i was finally able to call family members that i was too embarrassed to talk to before, and tell them the good news, and also that i had found a job, you know. but it's hard to call back home when you feel like you're failing, you know. it's hard to, like, call your grandparents and tell them that you're still not worki
plenty of her brown classmates are mal-employed as well. >> jobs that you don't need a college education for, by any stretch of the imagination. >> reporter: chandra thought the highway job would be stopgap. it's lasted a year, with food stamps needed at times to supplement her part-time income. david cook and his wife-- also a college grad and a part-time waitress-- are still on food stamps; were on welfare for a while, too. >> it's been really emotionally tough for both of...